Wednesday, 2 May 2012

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS –FEBRUARY 2012.

Freedom fighter and one of
the doyens of Indian diplomacy, who passed away in New
Delhi on 31
January 2012?

A. K. Damodaran.

He was one of the architects of the 1971 Indo-Soviet Treaty.
He was Indian ambassador in Sri Lanka,
China, Russia,
Germany and Italy.
Damodaran is the author of 'Jawaharlal Nehru as a Communicator' and the
co-editor of 'Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru' and 'Indian
Foreign Policy: The Indira Gandhi Years'.

Which state is decided to set
up 30 village courts named as “Grama Nyayalaya”?

Kerala.

Who has been appointed as the
Director of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)?

M. Abdul Rahman.

Former Force India
driver who has been given an 18-month suspended sentence after being found
guilty of causing grievous bodily harm?

Adrian Sutil.

The 29-year-old Adrian
was found guilty of injuring Eric Lux, chief executive of Lotus team owners
Genii Capital, by striking him with a champagne glass and causing a wound in
his neck which required 24 stitches.

Which country has won the
10.4 billion dollars deal to supply 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft
(MMRCA) to the Indian Air Force (IAF), India’s
biggest arms deal?

France.

The French Dassault Rafale, a multi-role nuclear capable
fighter aircraft that has been successfully proven in combat in Iraq,
Afghanistan and
recently in Libya,
has tri-service variants. French Air Force, Navy and Army are currently using
these three variants. The arm deal which is also the world’s largest in recent
years in terms of value as the contract is likely to go up to 20 billion.

The Supreme Court on 02-02-2012 cancelled all telecom
licences allotted under the 2G spectrum on or after January 10, 2008. How many 2g licences have been cancelled
by the apex court?

122.

Supreme Court said that all the 122 licences for 2G spectrum
were granted in an arbitrary and unconstitutional manner. The Supreme Court has
declined to reconsider its order canceling 122 telecom licences.

Who has been selected for the
prestigious Interfaith Harmony Award specially endowed with United
Nations' Interfaith Harmony Week initiatives and observations?

M.A .Yusuf Ali.

He is a non-resident Indian business magnate from Kerala and
the award will be presented to Ali on March
1, 2012 at the International Seminar on Interfaith Harmony and
Tolerance held in the International Islamic University Malaysia,
Gombak campus at Kuala Lumpur.

Polish poet and the winner of
the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, who died recently at her home in Krakow,
Poland, from lung
cancer?

Wislawa Szymborska.

She was a Polish poet, essayist, and translator and was
awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature "for poetry that with ironic
precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in
fragments of human reality".

British Energy Minister who
has resigned from Cabinet over allegations that he asked his ex-wife to
take a speeding penalty for him?

Chris Huhne.

Former Khmer Rouge S-21
prison commander who has been sentenced to life imprisonment by U.N.Court
for crimes against humanity, torture and the premeditated murder of more
than 15,000 people?

Kaing Guek Eav.

He is better known as Duch and he was 67 at the time of his
convictions, which was for war crimes, crimes against humanity, murder and
torture. He was the head of the S-21 prison where about 14,000 people died. Few
people taken to the prison made it out alive; only about a dozen were found by
the Vietnamese, who invaded Cambodia
in 1979.

Who has been removed as England
captain by the Football Association due to his pending racism trial?

John Terry.

Who won the Player of the
Match award in the third test between England
and Pakistan
held in Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium, Dubai
from February 3, 2012?

Azhar Ali. (Pakistan).

He scored 157 runs in the second innings.

Series Status: Pakistan
wins the 3 Test series against England,
3-0.

Who won the Player of the
Series award in the three test Cricket series between England
and Pakistan
held in Dubai in 2012?

Saeed Ajmal.

Film and stage actor best
known for playing tough characters and villains in the films ‘Anatomy of a
Murder’ in 1959 and ‘The Killing of a Chinese Bookie’ in 1976 who died on
February 3, 2012?

Ben Gazzara

In 2012 IPL Players Auction,
which player was bought by Chennai Super Kings for $2 million (approx. Rs.
9.8 Crore) and becoming the most expensive player of the year's auction?

Ravindra Jadeja.

Man of the match winners of
Tri nation (India,
Sri Lanka
& Australia)
ODI Cricket Series held in Australia
in February, 2012:

An Indian teacher who has
been selected by US Space Foundation for its 2012 Flight of Teacher
Liaisons Program?

Vandana Suryawanshi.

She is a teacher of Vidya
Valley School,
Maharashtra.

Name the autobiography of
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro which related his experience from
childhood to the end of December 1958, previous to the triumph of the
Cuban revolution?

"Guerrilla Man of Time".

He presented two volumes of his new memoir “Guerrilla Man of
Time” on February 3, 2012 in
Havana. The books, with about 1,000
pages, were the result of Castro's conversation with Cuban journalist Katiuska
Blanco, who wrote two other books on Castro "All the Time of Cedars"
and "Angel."

Which countries have vetoed a
United Nations Security Council resolution calling for Syrian president
Bashar al-Assad to step down?

Russia
and China.

Which country won the first Under
21 Squash world cup held in Chennai defeating India
in the final?

Egypt.

Prime Minister of Romania who
has resigned after three weeks of protests related to the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and anti-austerity measures?

Emil Boc.

First democratically-elected
president of the Maldives
who resigned on February 7, 2012
following a coup attempt by police officers and army troops?

Mohamed Nasheed.

Who is
appointed as the new prime
minister of Kuwait?

Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al Sabah.

Sheikh Jaber, 69, has been in the cabinet as defence minister
and was also the first deputy premier in the outgoing cabinet.

Which state clinched the
National Junior Badminton Championship held in Jaipur defeating Air India
in the final?

Kerala.

K.P Sruthii, Sneha Santhilal, Daya Elsa Jacob
and Farha Mather have clinched the title for Kerala. The last time Kerala won
this title was eight years ago.

Manager of England Football
Team who resigned from the post on February 8, 2012, following the Football Association's
decision to strip John Terry of the captaincy?

Fabio Capello.

The three Ministers in the
BJP Government in Karnataka, who were caught

watching pornography on a mobile phone during the Assembly
proceedings, resigned recently. Name the ministers?

Veteran Bollywood
writer-filmmaker who died in Mumbai on February 9, 2012?

O.P. Dutta.

He began his career in 1948. He directed nine films until
1959, after which he got into writing dialogues, scripts and stories for films.
He wrote most of the films for his director son, J.P. Dutta, notably Border and
LOC Kargil. He won the IIFA [India International Film Academy Award] and the
Filmfare Award for the film Refugee. In 2006, he won a Lifetime Achievement
Award from Filmfare.

Spanish photographer who won
the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award Friday for an image of a
veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration
in Yemen?

Samuel Aranda.

The photo is taken for The New York Times on Oct. 15 in a
mosque in Sanaa, Yemen.

Which pair won the women's
doubles Title of the Pattaya Open tennis championship in Thailand?

Sania Mirza (India)
and Anastasia Rodionova (Australia).

Legendary pop singer who died
from accidental drowning in her hotel bathtub after taking cocaine which
could have triggered a heart attack?

Whitney Houston

In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her
as the most-awarded female act of all-time. She won two Emmy Awards, six Grammy
Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among a total of
415 career awards as of 2010.Houston
was one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million
albums, singles and videos worldwide. She released seven studio albums and
three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum,
platinum or gold certification.She was best known for her great hit
“I will Always Love You.”

On February
11, 2012, Houston was
found dead in suite 434 at
the Beverly Hilton Hotel, submerged in the bathtub. On March 22, 2012, the Los
Angeles County
coroner's office reported the cause of Houston's
death was drowning and the "effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and
cocaine use". The office stated the amount of cocaine found in Houston's
body indicates she used the substance shortly before her death.
Toxicology results revealed additional drugs in her system: Benadryl, Xanax,
marijuana and Flexiril.

Indian economist and 1998
Nobel Prize winner in economics, who has been felicitated with the
National Medals of Arts and Humanities award by the US
President Barack Obama?

Amartya Sen.

Parliament
of which country approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill on February 13,
2012 to secure a second EU
(European Union)/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy?

Greece.

Which country won the African
Nations Cup-2012, beating Ivory Coast
8-7 in a penalty shootout after a goalless draw in the final held in Equatorial
Guinea?

Zambia.

African nations Cup -2013 will be held in South
Africa.

African nations Cup -2015 will be held in Morocco.

African nations Cup -2017will be held inLibya.

Which
state won Youth National Volleyball Championship Women’s title-2012 held
in Kolkata?

Kerala.

They beat West Bengal
in the final. Kerala women won the title for the 12th time. Uttar Pradesh won
the Youth National Volleyball Championship men’s title-2012 defeating Kerala in
the final.

Who has been appointed as
Deputy Chief of Indian Army?

Lt Gen Ramesh Halgali.

COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS OF
BAFTA AWARDS-2012:

The
British Academy
of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a charity in the United
Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for
excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of
animation. Here is the complete list of winners of BAFTA Awards-2012.

Special
visual effects: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - Tim Burke, John
Richardson, Greg Butler and David Vickery

Short animation: A Morning Stroll -
Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe

Short film: Pitch Black Heist - John
Maclean and Geraldine O'Flynn

British singer who won 6 Grammy
Awards at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards held on 12 February 2012, at the Staples
Center in Los
Angeles?

Adele. (Adele Laurie Blue Adkins).

She won six Grammies for her Album, 21equalling the record for most Grammy
Awards won by a female artist in one night..
Adele released her album, 21, in early 2011.At the 2009 Grammy Awards; Adele
received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Senior BJP leader and Higher
Education Minister of Karnataka who passed away after a massive heart
attack during a function in Bangalore
on February 14, 2012?

V.S.Acharya.

Who has been
appointed as the Bowling Coach of the Indian Cricket
team, for a period of two years?

Joe Dawes.

He will replace Eric
Simons whose term ends at the completion of India’s ongoing Tour of Australia.

A fire at a prison on February 15, 2012 in country in Central
America killed more than 300 inmates and left dozens
unaccounted for in the worst tragedy of its kind in recent memory. Which
is that country?

Honduras

As per the world wide ‘Cost
of living’ survey by Economist Intelligence Unit, which Indian city
becomes the second least expensive city in the world?

Mumbai.

Delhi ranked
fourth in that list.

Which country has overtaken India
as the World’s largest gold consumer according to the latest data released
by the World Gold Council?

China.

The former Australia all-rounder, who has announced his retirement from all
forms of professional cricket including the IPL, citing family reasons?

Andrew Symonds.

Which city has outpaced Tokyo as
the world's most expensive city to live in, according to the Economist Intelligence
Unit's most recent world-wide cost-of-living survey.

Zurich.

Zurich is the
largest city in Switzerland
and the capital of the canton of Zurich.
It is located in central Switzerland
at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich.

Who won the The Duleep Trophy Cricket Title for the season 2011–12
defeating Central Zone by an innings and 20 runs in the final?

East Zone.

This is their maiden Duleep Trophy Title.

Two Indian fishermen being
shot at and killed by the security personnel of Italian ship, about 14
nautical miles off Alappuzha in Kerala, on February 15, 2012. Name of that Italian Ship?

Enrica Lexie.

It was an Italian oil tanker ‘Enrica Lexie’, from which
gunshots were fired by the security guards of the ship, killing two Indian
fishermen off Alappuzha, in Arabian Sea off Kerala coast
around 4:30 pm on 15th Feb 2012.

Who is
appointed as the new chairperson of Kerala State Women's Commission?

K.C. Rosakutty.

Man of the Match winners of
Four ODI cricket series between Pakistan
and England
held in Abu Dhabi in February
2012:

First ODI between Pakistan
and England
held in Abu Dhabi on February 13, 2012:

Man of the match: Alastair Cook. (England).
He scored 137 runs.

Result: England
beat Pakistan
by 130 runs

Second ODI between Pakistan
and England
held in Abu Dhabi on February 15, 2012:

Man of the match: Alastair Cook. (England).
He scored 102runs.

Result: England
beat Pakistan
by 20 runs.

Third ODI between Pakistan
and England
held in Abu Dhabi on February 18, 2012:

Fourth ODI between Pakistan
and England
held in Abu Dhabi on February 21, 2012:

Man of the match: Kevin Pietersen. (England).
He scored 130 runs.

Result: England
beat Pakistan
by 4 wickets.

Series Status: England
wins the 4 ODI series 4-0.

Who won the Player of the
Series award in the Four ODI cricket series between Pakistan
and England
held in Abu Dhabi in February
2012?

Alastair Cook. (England).

Man of the Match winners of
Three T20 International cricket series between Pakistan
and England
held in UAE in February 2012:

First T20 between Pakistan
and England
held in Dubai on February 23, 2012:

Man of the match: Umar Gul. (Pakistan).

Result: Pakistan
beat England by
8 runs.

Second T20 between Pakistan
and England
held in Dubai on February 25, 2012:

Man of the match: Jonathan Bairstow. (England).

Result: England
beat Pakistan
by 38 runs.

Third T20 between Pakistan
and England
held in Abu Dhabi on February 27, 2012:

Man of the match: Kevin Pietersen. (England).

Result: England
beat Pakistan
by 5 runs.

Series Status: England
wins the 3 T20I series 2-1

Who won the Player of the
series award in the Three T20 International cricket series played between Pakistan
and England
held in UAE in February 2012?

Kevin Pietersen. (England).

German President who
has resigned from his position as head of state on February 17,
2012 in the midst of mounting criticism over a home loan scandal?

Christian Wulff.

Bollywood actor who has been
appointed as the ‘Brand Ambassador’ for Rs.10 crore prize money World
Series Hockey Tournament?

Sunil Shetty.

The two-time Pulitzer
Prize-winning ‘New York Times’ journalist who died in eastern Syria
while on a reporting assignment on February
16, 2012?

Anthony Shadid.

He was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in
Baghdad and Beirut.
Shadid twice won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, in 2004 and
2010, for his coverage of the Iraq War.

Sri
Lanka batsman who has completed 10,000
runs in one-day international cricket and becomes 10th batsman to in the
world for completing 10,000 runs?

Kumar Sangakkara.

He has achieved this landmark at the tri series match against Australia,
on February 17, 2012 by
hitting 11 runs of his innings.

Former External Affairs
Ministry Secretary who was India's
first Ambassador to Tanzania
when the African country gained Independence
in 1962, died on 16-02-2012?

M.A. Vellodi.

He had a remarkable career until he retired from service in
1979. Mr. Vellodi was posted in Switzerland,
Pakistan and Tanzania.
He headed the Indian Mission to the U.N. and was associated with the U.N. for
45 years. An associate of Secretary General U Thant, he functioned in the
Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, the
Human Rights Commission, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. He was
Chairman, Expert Group of the UNSG on Nuclear Weapons, and Chairman, U.N.
Disarmament Commission. He was in the International Commission for Supervision
and Control in Indo-China.

The UN General Assembly has
approved a resolution on 16-02-12,
condemning human rights violations in country in Western Asia,
and calling for an end to the violence. Which is that country?

Syria.

It was approved by 137 votes to 12
against, with 17 abstentions. Vetoes are not allowed in the assembly. The
resolution calls for President Bashar al-Assad to relinquish power.

South African all-rounder who hit the fastest ever Twenty20 international century in the match against New Zealand?

Richard
Levi.

He scored unbeaten 117 runs from 51 balls which include 13
sixes.

He scored 100 from 45 balls.

Australia's
Foreign Minister who has resigned amid widespread reports of a leadership
tussle between him and Prime Minister Julia Gillard?

Kevin Rudd.

Which
country was suspended from the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (the
most powerful panel of the Commonwealth body) on 22-02-12, following the recent developments
in the country including the ousting of its democratically-elected
president Mohamed Nasheed?

Maldives.

Eminent
Scientist and the senior most member of the Space Commission, who has
resigned to protest the blacklisting of former Indian space agency
chairman G. Madhavan Nair and three others in connection with the
Antrix-Devas spectrum deal?

Roddam Narasimha.

Two-time
Olympic champion who broke indoor pole vault world record at the XL Galan
meet on February 23, 2012?

Yelena Isinbayeva.

She cleared 16 feet, 5 ¼ on her
second attempt at Globe Arena, topping her mark of 16-4 ¾ set in 2009 at Donetsk,
Ukraine.

Australian batsman who has announced his retirement from
one-day international cricket on February 21, 2012?

Ricky Ponting

A team
of Russian biophysicists at the Institute
of Cell Biophysics has
successfully regenerated the ancient plant species, using tissue material
that stayed frozen in the Siberian region for an estimated 30,000 years.
What is the name of that ancient plant species?

Sylene stenophylla.

The plant is by far the oldest to
be brought back from the dead: the previous record holder was a sacred lotus,
dating back about 1200 years. The late David Gilichinsky from the Soil Cryology
Laboratory in Moscow, Russia,
and colleagues recovered the fruits of the ice age flowering plant (Silene
stenophylla) from a fossilised squirrel burrow in frozen sediments near the Kolyma
River in north-east Siberia.
Radiocarbon dating of the fruit suggests the squirrel stashed it around 31,800
years ago, just before the ice rolled in.

As per
the new scheme announced by Govt. of India, the single longest national
highway will be?

NH 44

NH 44 will run from Srinagar
to Kaniyakumari.

Indian
cricketer who has bagged the fifth ESPN cricinfo best batting performance
award in Tests?

Sachin Tendulkar.

It was Tendulkar's second ESPNcricinfo Award. He had won the ODI
batting performance in 2009 for his 175 against Australia
in Hyderabad.

The
prime minister of Haiti,
who has resigned on February
24,2012 after a power struggle within the government?

Garry Conille.

Who is
the new President of Yemen?

Abd-Rabbu
Mansour Hadi.

Hadi replaces Ali Abdullah Saleh,
who ruled the country for 33 years before leaving office after a year of
political turmoil.

A
villager from Nepal
who is officially the shortest living man ever according to the Guinness
World Records?

Chandra Bahadur Dangi.

He is the shortest man in the
world, measuring 0.546 m (1 ft 9 in). Chandra is the only person
in Guinness' 57 years history to record the title of the shortest man at the
age of 72.

News Corp. Chief Executive Officer
Rupert Murdoch recently started a British sunday tabloid to replace the
News of the World newspaper that was closed last year following a
phone-hacking scandal. Name of that Tabloid?

The Sun.

By
defeating which country, Indian men's
hockey team qualified for the 2012 London Olympics?

France.

India
defeated France
8-1 in the final of a qualifying tournament held in New
Delhi. However Indian women hockey team's Olympic
dream came crashing down as they lost the final 3-1 to a formidable South
African (SA) team.

Which
country has been ranked as the world's wealthiest country in a new list
compiled by the prestigious US
magazine Forbes?

Qatar.

Qatar
booked an estimated gross domestic product per capita of more than $ 88,000 for
2010, Forbes said, compared with $ 47,500 for the UAE, which was placed sixth
while Kuwait
stood at 15th in the list.

COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS OF OSCAR AWARDS-2012:

Here is the complete list of winners of the 84th Academy Awards, presented
by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best
films of 2011 and took place February 26, 2012, at the Hollywood and Highland
Center in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Former
India
football captain, who led the country to the inaugural Asian Games gold
medal in 1951, passed away at his Kolkata residence on February 27,2012 due to
prolonged illness?

Sailendra Nath Manna

He is known popularly as Sailen Manna and is considered to be
one of the best defenders India
has ever produced. He has represented and captained India
in different international competitions including Olympics and Asian Games. He
also has a record of playing for Mohun Bagan, one of the best clubs in India,
for a continuous period of 19 years. The club conferred him ‘Mohun Bagan Ratna’
in 2001. He is the only Asian Footballer ever to be named among the 10 best
Captains in the world by the English FA in 1953 and awarded the ‘Footballer of the
Millennium’ by the All India Football Federation in 2000. He was awarded the
Padmashree in 1971.

India's
men's doubles duo who won the Austrian International Challenge-2012 Men’s
Doubles Badminton title held in
Vienna?

K.T. Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas.

They defeated Japan’s
Hiroyuki Saeki and Ryota Taohata in the final.

Which
club has won the Football League Cup for the eighth time after a narrow
penalty-shootout win over Cardiff
City?

Liverpool.

Liverpool
won the 2011-2012 Football League Cup and this is Liverpool’s
first trophy since winning the FA Cup in 2006. The Football League Cup,
commonly known as the League Cup or, from recent sponsorship, the Carling Cup,
is an English association football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played
on a knockout (single elimination) basis.

Which
Asian country has been removed by The World Health Organisation (WHO) from
the list of polio-endemic countries, suggesting that the wild polio virus
had been totally eliminated from the environment?

India.

What is
PURA?

Providing Urban
Amenities to Rural Areas (PURA).

It is a strategy for rural development in India.
It is a concept given by former president Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.and framed by
Prof.Emerson. PURA proposes that urban infrastructure and services be provided
in rural hubs to create economic opportunities outside of cities. Physical
connectivity by providing roads electronic connectivity by providing
communication network and knowledge connectivity by establishing professional
and Technical institutions will have to be done in an integrated way so that
economic connectivity will emanate. The Indian central government has been
running pilot PURA programs in several states since 2004.

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2 comments:

as u have mentioned in question no.70 that shortest highway is NH-36 but i found dat National Highway 36, also known as NH 36, connects Nagaon in Assam and Dimapur in Nagaland. The total distance covered is 170 km (110 mi), of which 167 km (104 mi) is in Assam and 3 km (1.9 mi) is in Nagaland.[1]

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